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Hold the Mayo, Extra Pesticides: Americans are sold on organics

Over the past decade, organic produce sales have soared from 3 percent of the retail produce market in the U.S. in 2000 to nearly 11 percent last year, to $9.5 billion. According to surveys by the...
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

Congress to Kids: Drop Dead

When Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health.
Food & Water

Excessive Vitamins and Minerals in Food Put Millions of Children at Risk

Nearly half of American kids age eight and younger consume potentially harmful amounts of vitamin A, zinc and niacin because of excessive food fortification, outdated nutritional labeling rules and...

Food & Water
Food

Good Food on a Tight Budget: It Can Be Done

The Environmental Working Group's new food guide can help. The guide shows shoppers how to manage their grocery costs while reducing their exposure to toxic chemicals and rediscovering the savory...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
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Food
Food

Hold the Mayo, Extra Pesticides

Over the past decade, organic produce sales have soared from 3 percent of the retail produce market in the U.S. in 2000 to nearly 11 percent last year, to $9.5 billion. According to surveys by the...
Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Want Some Bug-Killer With That?

If you like your fruits and vegetables with pesticides, then you'll be glad to know the conventional produce industry is boasting of a big win with the Obama administration.
Food & Water
Food

Food for Thought? Not With the Farm Bill

Sarah (not her real name), was usually one of the best students I met while teaching 8th grade math in a New Orleans public school. When I asked a question, her hand darted into the air as she...
Children’s Health
Food & Water
Food

Kids’ Cereals Pack More Sugar Than Twinkies and Cookies

Parents have good reason to worry about the sugar content of children's breakfast cereals, according to an Environmental Working Group review of 84 popular brands.
Research

Potassium Bromate

Few foods evoke an image of wholesomeness like fresh-baked bread. But the flour used in many commercial baked goods may include an additive that's been linked to cancer.
2,4-D
Glyphosate
Pesticides
Food & Water
Food

EWG, Scientists and Doctors Sign Letter Urging EPA To Reject Potent Herbicide Mix

Administrator Gina McCarthy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20460 RE: Dow AgroSciences application to amend their 2,4-D choline salt herbicide for use on 2...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Conservation
Food & Water
Food

Much Ado about Giving Consumers What they Want

Over the past year, industrial produce growers and pesticide makers have made much ado about EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which assembles federal testing data on many fruits and...
Food & Water
Food

The Myth of “Natural” Parabens

Parabens are a class of chemicals used as preservatives in food, industrial products and personal care products, but most widely prevalent in cosmetics and personal care products. Nearly everyone is...
Food & Water
Food

Wellness Chat: The Importance of Nutrition in Cancer Prevention

Wellness Chat is a new EWG series bringing you the latest news on cancer prevention through discussions with experts in the field. Today's guest: Jocelyn Weiss, Ph.D.
Children’s Health
Food & Water

10 Healthy-ish Halloween Treats That Won’t Make Your Kids Roll Their Eyes. (Much.)

Parents are trapped in the Halloween guilt vortex: going full-scale green mom, handing out whole walnuts or pennies or dental floss to avoid loading kids with sugar and additives but thereby making...
Research

Bisphenol A - Toxic Plastics Chemical in Canned Food

EWG laboratory tests found a toxic food-can lining ingredient associated with birth defects of the male and female reproductive systems in over half of 97 cans of name-brand fruit, vegetables, soda, and other commonly eaten canned goods. The study targeted the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic and resin ingredient used to line metal food and drink cans. There are no government safety standards
Research

Fruit leather: A snack sometimes chock full of pesticides and sugar

When parents and caregivers herd kids out the door for an outing, they typically grab snack food on the way. And one of the most convenient is a product kids love – fruit leather.
Rolls of fruit leather
Research

PFCs: Global Contaminants

Consumers instantly recognize them as household miracles of modern chemistry, a family of substances that keeps food from sticking to pots and pans, repels stains on furniture and rugs, and makes the rain roll off raincoats. But in the past 5 years, the multi-billion dollar “perfluorochemical” industry has emerged as a regulatory priority for scientists and officials at the U.S. Environmental